Historic Sotterley is excited to welcome Kamau Sadiki as our featured speaker for Sotterley Presents: People and Perspectives. On Wednesday, July 13, 2022, at 7:00 p.m., at 44300 Sotterley Lane in Hollywood, MD. Kamau Sadiki is the immediate past President of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers (NABS). He is a lifetime NABS member and served as its Vice President from 2011 to 2017. He is a member of the Class of 2006 Underwater Adventure Seekers Scuba Diving Club based in Washington, DC, a founding club of NABS. He is a certified PADI Divemaster Kamau is a board member and Lead Instructor for Diving with a Purpose and studies slave shipwrecks using advanced underwater archaeological techniques. Sadiki was a member of the dive teams that explored both the first slave ship documented, the São José Paquete de Africa, and the last slave ship to bring captured Africans into the US, the Clotilda. Kamau Sadiki will lead an illuminating discussion about both shipwrecks and the connection they shared. Diving With A Purpose (DWP), an international organization committed to resurrecting the stories of slave shipwrecks from the bottom of the sea through underwater archaeology documentation. DWP and Kamau were featured in […]
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